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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: more entangled than a wisp of string, and their confusion is
unrestingly in change; we must hold to what we know and walk
by it. We must walk by faith, indeed, and not by knowledge.
You do not love another because he is wealthy or wise or
eminently respectable: you love him because you love him;
that is love, and any other only a derision and grimace. It
should be the same with all our actions. If we were to
conceive a perfect man, it should be one who was never torn
between conflicting impulses, but who, on the absolute
consent of all his parts and faculties, submitted in every
action of his life to a self-dictation as absolute and
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